[HN Gopher] The Trundle
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       The Trundle
        
       Author : benbreen
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2022-01-16 02:39 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | krthowaway wrote:
       | Been up there 3 times in the past couple weeks. Not a lot of
       | light polution over there, great for seeing stars!
        
       | raytube wrote:
       | Good to see some trundle loving on HN, if you visit do not
       | attempt the track by car west of it leading south!
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       | You can park close by, but it still feels like a hike to the top.
        
       | swilliamsio wrote:
       | There's nothing more universally deflating as a British child
       | than being told you're going to see some ancient hill fort,
       | letting your castle-filled imagination run wild, before arriving
       | there after a long car journey, and just seeing a hill.
        
         | rjsw wrote:
         | I remember going to several hill forts as a child, don't think
         | I felt deflated, it was interesting to compare them with later
         | castles.
        
         | rob74 wrote:
         | That's why some archaeologists "enhanced" their hills by adding
         | "reconstructed" features that were probably never there in the
         | first place:
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         | > _[...] O 'Kelly concluded that they had made up a retaining
         | wall, but had fallen from the face of the mound. As part of the
         | restoration, this wall was "rebuilt" and the cobblestones were
         | fixed into a near-vertical steel-reinforced concrete wall
         | surrounding the front of the mound. This work is controversial
         | among the archaeological community. [...] Neil Oliver described
         | the reconstruction as "a bit brutal, a bit overdone, kind of
         | like Stalin does the Stone Age". Critics of the new wall claim
         | that the technology to fix a retaining wall at this angle did
         | not exist when the mound was created._
         | 
         | (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrange)
        
       | kitd wrote:
       | A few miles down the road from me.
       | 
       | Another nearby place to visit if you're in the Chichester area is
       | Kingley Vale [1]. It too has a hill fort at the top, but even
       | more impressive is the amazing 1000-year-old yew forest at the
       | bottom. Planted (according to tradition) by the Saxons to
       | celebrate a victory over the Vikings.
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       | [1] https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-
       | woods/woods/kingle...
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       | ed: also check out the lovely country pub in the village of
       | Stoughton at the bottom.
        
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